THANK YOU NOTE
“This comes to you with our warmest thanks, and we also want to say —
Our memories of your thoughtfulness will last for many a day.”
God bless each of you for the prayers, cards, calls and food you gave to the family of Billy Taylor. Your support has been a wonderful blessing and we praise God for the love you show. Thank you all for everything. In Christian love, The Taylor Family
WITH SYMPATHY
Jackie Ledbetter passed from this life to her eternal home on Friday, November 9th. Visitation took place on Sunday afternoon, November 11th at Putnam Funeral Home in Kingsland, followed by private graveside services at Lakeland Hills Memorial Park in Burnet, Texas. Our love, prayers and sympathy go out to Lesa Ledbetter, to Tina and John Brewer and to all the loved ones and friends who knew Jackie. May God’s comfort bless and sustain you!
HELP NEEDED
Visiting those in need.
Maintaining our lawn and shrubs.
See Cary Miller.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The time for our holiday projects is quickly approaching!
As is our custom, we collect cookies to be sent to Cherokee Home for Children for their holiday party. The Ladies Class members plan on packing up the cookies on Wednesday, November 28th, which is the last class of 2018. The cookie contribution from our members needs to be in the Fellowship Room by Sunday, November 25th. They can either be home-made cookies or store-bought ones.
Another project is our collection of stuffed animals for the Care Van. We need to have those before our Holiday Party, on Sunday, December 2nd. Remember, those stuffed dolls and/or animals should not have loose parts that can easily come off!
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
All are invited to come to Cary and Brenda Miller’s home, 1922 Bluebonnet Lane, for an Open House. This will be on Monday, December 10th, from 5-8 pm. Thanks to the Millers’ for opening their home and to all the “helping elves” that make this yearly event a great success.
HELPING HANDS PANTRY
Needs – Shampoo, bath soap, deodorant, plastic bags
Thank you for you continued support!
NEW BIBLE CLASS
A new Bible class will start on Wednesday, December 5th. Cary Miller will be the teacher and the topic will be announced at a later date.
BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES
It is a real blessing to hear examples of the Gospel at work. It’s also exciting when we can see it at work in a place that we have had a long association with, Nigeria. It’s such a great thing when we know some of the people involved in it, like Monday John Akpakpan. Continue to keep this great work in your prayers. For the elders, Ken D
Monday John Akpakpan Reports 345 Baptisms in Nigeria
In his report for the months of July, August, and September, Monday John Akpakpan from the Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, reported that 345 baptisms have taken place in his area during those three months. He lists twenty different locations in which these baptisms have taken place. Akpakpan is a follow-up coordinator for World Bible School in that area.
The largest number was reported from the Nigerian Christian Bible College Lectureship where 122 men and women were baptized. At the Annual Lectureship at the C. A. O. Essien Memorial Bible School a total of sixty-five men and women were baptized. The World Bible School Seminar at Odukpani Township Church of Christ saw twenty-one baptisms on the day of the seminar but additional baptisms just before and just after the seminar brought the total to sixty-five. At three prisons, a total of forty souls were added to the church during the three month period.
The other baptisms on the list were generally four or five at a particular church or through a particular minister working in the area.
Akpakpan also mentioned that there were youth seminars on different Sundays of the month at various locations and a women’s lectureship is held on the third Saturday of the month at different places.
Certainly good news that Monday John Akpakpan and others in the area are having such good success in bringing people to Christ.
The prophet Amos predicted a famine in the land of Israel. They had known famine before, but this would be a different kind of famine. They would have food and water, but the word of God would become very rare. The problem was that spokesmen for God were in short supply, and the few that remained were preaching error. God’s people were starving for a true message from God and had grown accustomed to hearing error. Israel would not wake up to their dire circumstances until it was too late. They were literally dying from a lack of preacher.
Our schools can train gospel preachers, and many of them are doing a commendable job of equipping those who enroll. The problem is that future preachers are produced, not in the schools, but rather in homes and churches. Not enough fathers and mothers are encouraging their sons to become preachers. Often they are discouraging it, knowing the sacrifices that might be involved. Churches have become consumers of preachers rather than producers of preachers. Where are the ministers who will shoulder-tap the best and brightest in their congregations and encourage them to seek training? Where are the elders who will monitor a young man, send him to a preaching school with their financial support, and then bring him back to be a minister or intern in their congregation? Are there still some godly sisters, who teach our children’s classes, who will whisper in the ear of promising young men, “You need to be a preacher?”
BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES
WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL 
Any runner, cyclist, or truck driver will have experienced this phenomenon. When you are going into a headwind, you notice it. The wind buffets your efforts, you feel every moment of discomfort and pushback. However, when you go back in the other direction, when the wind is at your back, you don’t much think about how it is pushing you along, if you are even mindful of it.
BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES
FOR FREEDOM (Galatians 5:1) Jesus came to set the captives of this world free (Luke 4:18), and those He has redeemed have been charged to join Him in that mission (Matt. 28:19). God continues to open doors and provide opportunities to join him on His mission as we print and distribute Bibles in 30 countries in over 20 languages. We invite you and your church to join our MDS campaign to share God’s Word and His liberating power!
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